1.The Titan Prometheus appears in myth as the
champion of men against the ill-will of Zeus. According to one account, he moulded man out of clay.
Again, when Zeus withheld fire from mortals, Prometheus ascended to heaven and stole fire from the
chariot of the sun for the benefit of men. As a perpetual punishment, Prometheus was put in chains
and suspended from a rock in the Caucasus, where an eagle, the sacred bird of Zeus, in the day-time
consumed his liver, which renewed itself every night. See Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.82ff;
Hesiod, Theogony 561ff.